Prediction:
Over the next decades the onion will slowly become not a, but the only, source of real news as all the other sources become more like info wars.
The Onion buys Infowars
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Re: The Onion buys Infowars
#452A significant percentage of the population will always gravitate towards the type of content produced by Alex Jones and Infowars. Russia solved this by making "controlled" media outlets (and in recent years Telegram channels) for people who gravitate toward conspiracies and contrarian viewpoints without making them critical of the current Russian administration. Obviously that is not what The Onion is planning to do…
The US already does this. The problem is that most Americans can't understand that their favourite Red/Blue scandal is just a side show at the circus of genocide.
Re: The Onion buys Infowars
#453Worth remembering that Donald Trump embraced Alex Jones after his sustained campaign of vicious, hateful and provably-false lies about dead child.
So did Joe Rogan.
Re: The Onion buys Infowars
#454Earlier quoted context omitted.
Beware the EU deep (super)state! But don't fear, it's no match for our shallow catchphrases!
"Deep supranational political and economic union" really doesn't have the same ring to it.
Deep Economic Supranational Political Association Integrating Regions would be catchy.
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#455Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a bit confused. Whilst you don't explicitly say it, are you not suggesting it would be better for the public's opinion of the justice system to not sanction Alex Jones to the full extent of the law, if at all? Your first sentence is that the courts have to be impartial and functional. Ignoring the influence Jones has on the public and fully executing the law as it is laid out by taking InfoWars from Jones sounds…
> Ignoring the influence Jones has on the public and fully executing the law What "law" exactly do you think needs to be "executed"? Defamation laws? Were these defamation laws ever argued in court? Did you actually follow the trial? The court claimed that Alex Jones didn't provide documents, documents that never existed, and defaulted him. The defamation laws were never argued in the court case. This action by the c…
We are laughing at the gay frogs man here. Get out if here with you mature analysis of the death of the judicial branch of the United States.
Re: The Onion buys Infowars
#456The NPR article conveys that this was more than just a very clever stunt > "The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion's bid, enabling its success," according to their lawyers. ... Jones was hoping a bidder ideologically aligned with him would have bought Infowars and hired him back to keep doing his show. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-518939…
Yeah, this seems like a clear-cut "We want justice, not money" decision. We don't know how much the families gave up (could be a little, could be significant), but whatever it was was the difference between Infowars remaining what it is or utterly destroying Infowars' credibility.
Because now the Wikipedia entry is going to say "parody site" at the top.
Re: The Onion buys Infowars
#457Earlier quoted context omitted.
The funniest thing would be to keep running the site as-is but swap out the insanity for stuff that reads like insanity but is legit or morally sound. The audience might not notice, and could (IMHO) easily be duped into supporting good causes!
Yep. Insert little-known stories that are documented conspiracies that aren't hypotheticals similar to the fine content of DamnInteresting. Be sure to use lots of graphics and editoralizing/clickbait headlines. - Radium girls - Eugenics experiments - Forced sterilization - ~600 Tennessee sober "drunk driving" arrests
> documented conspiracies that aren't hypotheticals
And, ironically since it's what launched Jones' career, Bohemian Club & Grove: https://x.com/abbieasr/status/1462953203067240450
Luckily my conscience is clean because I discovered the existence of that place not from AJ but by studying the North Pacific Coast Railroad, which used to go directly to The Grove in Sonoma:
https://archive.org/details/bwb_W7-BOG-168
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1SkFrgLj-TR4gyw9Y4m...
For anyone so inclined, the path of the NPCR makes a beautiful Sunday drive!
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#458Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My only worry is that this acquisition makes Global Tetraeder so large that it attracts the attention of those pesky EU bureaucrats, who will want to split it up into multiple imperfect solids. Based on what previous in-real-life examples is this a realistic worry? AFAIK, "EU bureaucrats" haven't broken up a single US-based company before so seems like a weird thing to be worried about.
Are you really criticizing The Onion's fact-checking? Can you spot any problems with their plan for the supplement inventory? > we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal
I was a worker on that project. A crumb of the omnivitamin fell off and touched my right hand and now that hand doesn't age anymore like Bruce Willis's hands in Death Becomes Her
Re: The Onion buys Infowars
#459Prediction: Over the next decades the onion will slowly become not a, but the only, source of real news as all the other sources become more like info wars.
"And now with the State of the Onion address, President Swift!"
Re: The Onion buys Infowars
#460The Onion did a fundraising campaign a few months ago.
Glad to see this is where my donation went!